CVE-2023-46862 is a NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel io_uring fdinfo reporting path. In Linux kernels through 6.5.9, a race between SQ thread exit and io_uring_show_fdinfo() can cause the function to dereference a NULL pointer while exposing io_uring file-descriptor information.
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Linux kernel io_uring NULL pointer dereference vulnerability.
Linux kernel io_uring NULL-pointer dereference vulnerability.
Linux kernel io_uring file-descriptor-info NULL-pointer dereference vulnerability.
Linux kernel io_uring file-descriptor information NULL-pointer dereference.
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